What did you read this year?
Shortest Book
193
pages
Longest Book
464
pages
Average book length in
2024
330
pages
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Eric O.’s
average rating for
2024
3.3
3.3
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.41
average
Eric O.’s first review of the year
it was ok
Beautiful World Where Are You is the usual Sally Rooney novel, a romance intercut with essays. As a literary structure, this is nothing new. We can look back to 18th century novels like Clarissa, which work in the same way. And while I've yet to finish Clarissa, there's one major difference between Rooney's technique and Richardson's technique. Rooney's essays read like digression that never really illuminate the romance section. Richardson tends
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it was amazing
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Eric O.’s last review of the year
did not like it
In hindsight, is a woman decides to carry her dog in a baby sling a premise? It can be with the right author, I suppose- a nice premise for a character study. Zigman, however, doesn't give us much. We're told that Judy Vogel, the protagonist, feels alienated from the world, but we don't really come to feel her alienation. Mostly, Judy Vogel isn't weird at all. Just basic, and in the most middle class way possible.
In all honesty, I think Zigman d ...more
In all honesty, I think Zigman d ...more
What did you read this year?
